Bithynia

Translingual

Etymology

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Proper noun

Bithynia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bithyniidae – certain freshwater snails.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda – class; Caenogastropoda - subclass; Littorinimorpha - order; Truncatelloidea - superfamily; Bithyniidae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bithynia tentaculata - type species

References

• Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bithynia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bithynia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Bithynia is coloured red in this map of the provinces of the Roman Empire in AD 120.

Etymology

From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūnĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈθɪni.ə/

Proper noun

Bithynia

2. (historical) A geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.

Translations

ancient region

• Arabic: بِيثِينِيَا f (bīṯīniyā)
• Armenian: Բութանիա (Butʻania)
• Azerbaijani: Vifiniya
• Basque: Bitinia
• Bulgarian: Вити́ния f (Vitínija)
• Catalan: Bitínia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 比提尼亞 / 比提尼亚 (Bǐtíníyà)

• Czech: Bithýnie f
• Danish: Bithynien
• Dutch: Bithynië
• Estonian: Bitüünia
• Finnish: Bithynia
• French: Bithynie (fr) f
• Galician: Bitinia f
• Georgian: ბითინია (bitinia), ბითვინია (bitvinia), ბითვინია (bitvinia)
• German: Bithynien (de) n
• Greek: Βιθυνία (el) f (Vithynía)

  Ancient Greek: Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ f (Bīthūnĭ́ā)

• Hebrew: ביתיניה f (Bitiniya)
• Hungarian: Bithünia (hu)
• Irish: an Bhitín f
• Italian: Bitinia (it) f
• Japanese: ビテュニア (Bityunia)
• Korean: 비티니아 (Bitinia)
• Latin: Bīthȳnia (la) f
• Latvian: Bitīnija f
• Lithuanian: Bitinija f
• Macedonian: Витинија f (Vitinija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bitynia

  Nynorsk: Bithynia

• Persian: بیتینی (bîtîney)
• Polish: Bitynia (pl) f
• Portuguese: Bitínia f
• Romanian: Bitinia f
• Russian: Вифи́ния (ru) f (Vifínija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Битинија f

  Latin: Bitinija f

• Sicilian: Bitìnia f
• Slovak: Bitýnia f
• Slovene: Bitinija f
• Spanish: Bitinia f
• Swedish: Bithynien (sv)
• Turkish: Bitinya (tr)
• Ukrainian: Віфі́нія f (Vifínija), Віті́нія f (Vitínija)

Further reading

• Bithynia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Latin

Bithynia (in red) on a map of the provinces of the Roman Empire circa AD 120.

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūnĭ́ā).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [biːˈtʰyː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [biˈtiː.ni.a]

Proper noun

Bīthȳnia f sg (genitive Bīthȳniae); first declension

1. (historical) Bithynia (a geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey)

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bīthȳnia
genitive	Bīthȳniae
dative	Bīthȳniae
accusative	Bīthȳniam
ablative	Bīthȳniā
vocative	Bīthȳnia
locative	Bīthȳniae

Derived terms

• Bīthȳnī
• Bīthȳnicus
• Bīthȳniī
• Bīthȳnion
• Bīthȳnis
• Bīthȳnius
• Bīthȳnus

Descendants

• English: Bithynia
• Polish: Bitynia

References

• “Bīthȳnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Bithynia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Further reading

• Bithynia on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la